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Julie Cupples
@juliecupples79.bsky.social
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Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️‍⚧️ .. more

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 23h
My morning commute was ruined by having to listen to two people behind me exchanging ignorant transphobic comments. Horrific.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 1d
Ortega and Murillo are cornered. Let’s hope their days are numbered

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
Nicaragua scraps visa-free entry to Cubans reut.rs/4a6tVkw
Nicaragua scraps visa-free entry to Cubans
Nicaragua has ended visa‑free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, halting a policy that in recent years enabled thousands of Cubans to use the Central American country as a transit point on their journey to the United States.
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 4d
Régimen excarcela al exmilitar Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed tras denuncia de EEUU 100noticias.tv/politica/145...
Régimen excarcela al exmilitar Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed tras denuncia de EEUU
El régimen Ortega-Murillo excarceló al exmilitar Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed un día después de que EE. UU. denunciara en la OEA las “maniobras engañosas” de liberar presos políticos bajo restricciones.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 4d
IF {applying to study a PhD with me};
AND {your application includes hallucinated papers credited to me as author};
THEN {don't be surprised when your application is yeeted}.

I mean, really...!

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 7d
We so badly need to get Palantir out of our NHS
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 8d
Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 9d
Has the chancellor thought of looking at how other European countries do it? Austria is less wealthy than the UK, but everyone who wants to go to university can for free. You only pay for tuition fees if you exceed the degree duration by more than two semesters. The UK system is scandalous.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d
This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 10d
Si están en Madrid el 9 de febrero
Simposio en Madrid titulada Operación Guardabarranco sobre el destierro forzado de nicaragüenses 9 de febrero Casa de las Américas 18:00

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d
BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.

But we saved it. 👇
DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.
The Trump Department of Justice has done it again.
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 10d
See Nicaragua 2018
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
in Hungary do they have masked agents of the state gunning down civilians in the street? I feel like we need to dial up our authoritarian regime comparisons quite a bit from where they were a year ago

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 11d
Sure that’s right as long as these people don’t ever need doctors, nurses, vets, teachers, or artists, or don’t ever read books, watch TV, go to museums, use bridges, takes planes or trains, or benefit from research into housing, inequality, relationships, flood management, climate change etc etc
2damntrans.bsky.social sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 11d
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 11d
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 12d
All the best for the future Hugh

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d
This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Reposted by Julie Cupples, Nancy Langston, Christina Pagel

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
in Hungary do they have masked agents of the state gunning down civilians in the street? I feel like we need to dial up our authoritarian regime comparisons quite a bit from where they were a year ago

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 15d
Stop what you’re doing right now and listen to Mike Joseph’s beautiful new album Resiliente raíz #CostaRica #Reggae
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Resiliente Raíz by Paradise Productions & Mike Joseph on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 13 Songs
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 20d
I totally disagree. I miss the days when my class sizes were a quarter of what they are now, I knew every single student’s name and understood their strengths and weaknesses, and I didn’t have to navigate layers of clunky ed tech and teaching bureaucracy.
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20d
Saw a reference to ‘the neo-liberal university and the commodification of knowledge’. Fair enough, but what did it replace? In 1980s, the faculty were only interested in the best students and acted as if every non-academic job was beneath contempt. Most students were tolerated rather than taught.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20d
Saw a reference to ‘the neo-liberal university and the commodification of knowledge’. Fair enough, but what did it replace? In 1980s, the faculty were only interested in the best students and acted as if every non-academic job was beneath contempt. Most students were tolerated rather than taught.

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Confidencial Nicaragua @confidencialni.bsky.social · 21d
#Nicaragua | Si Ortega es un gobernante ausente, ahora sin poder de veto, Murillo es omnipresente, con su excéntrico e inconfundible atuendo, sus monólogos diarios a los medios de propaganda oficialista y su retórica altisonante👇
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Los nuevos anillos del poder: Rosario Murillo al mando de todo
Así funcionan los nuevos anillos del poder de Rosario Murillo. En este esquema, ella es omnipresente, y Daniel Ortega está ausente y aislado
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 21d
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”

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Forbes @forbes.com · 22d
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
Man Detained In Minnesota Dies In ICE Custody—Gov. Walz Demands Probe
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 29d
Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research.

You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jan 10
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Jan 7
New publication from our ongoing work in Guatemala.
The elections are a circus and Neto Bran is the clown: Affective publics in Guatemala
Julie Cupples, Charlotte Gleghorn, Raquel Ribeiro
Published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
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The elections are a circus and Neto Bran is the clown: Affective publics in Guatemala
On 1 July 2023, a video of a semi-naked man lying on a couch luxuriously smoking a large cigar and getting three crucifixes tattooed on his neck appeared on Instagram and TikTok. Set to the song “H...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jan 7
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Jan 5
I‘m soooo excited about Corriedale

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Jan 5
It is a terrible idea. How can any student think this is better than say reading a couple of readings from the syllabus?
ninamarkl.bsky.social Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Jan 5
"Stuck on an essay topic? Ask AI to suggest some initial ideas"

listen, i appreciate that people may differ but no, that's a bad idea. no.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Jan 5
This is also my life. Trying to implement daily German style lüften. I also had to persuade US spouse that we don’t leave the central heating on all night in the UK.
bocadelperro.bsky.social Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · Jan 5
Apparently at some point I turned the heat off, too. Jail for 10,000 years for me.
bocadelperro.bsky.social Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · Jan 4
Spouse: why is the bathroom window open in the middle of a rain storm?
Me: I just thought we needed some fresh air. The air is super nice and clean when it's raining!
Spouse: you spend too much time around Germans